Re: [boost] cstdint.hpp and Cygwin

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-01-23 15:25:20

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From: "John Maddock" <John_Maddock_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 7:27 AM
Subject: [boost] cstdint.hpp and Cygwin

>
> >Which seems to make it act as though long long weren't available on GCC
> >under win32. Can someone justify this?
> >A comment next to this #ifdef would certainly help.
>
> The defs for ULONG_LONG_MAX etc are broken - cygwin and mingw32 really
need
> handling as special cases - anyone want to fix this?

That's not really the justification I was looking for. I don't believe you
(sorry!) when you say these cases need special handling. They work fine in
my tests without any. I've removed the special cases and all the tests still
pass under cygwin.

-Dave